Future of Jewish

Avi Melamed is a former Israeli Intelligence Official and Senior Official on Arab Affairs, which propelled him to expertise on current affairs in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and their impact on Israel and the Middle East. In recent years, Melamed runs a U.S.-based organization called Inside the Middle East – Intelligence Perspectives, alongside Maia Hoffman — providing professional, apolitical, non-partisan, intelligence-based contextualized education and knowledge about the Middle East. He has also authored three books in English about the Middle East, his latest one titled Inside the Middle East – Entering a New Era, which was published in February 2022. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Karen Cinnamon is the founder of Smashing Life, the fastest-growing community membership club for Jewish and Jew(ish) women, as well as Smashing The Glass, the world’s biggest Jewish wedding platform. With offices in New York City and London, they create warm, inclusive communities for like-minded Jewish and Jew-ish women to learn, grow, and support one another, and build the joyful Jew(ish) life they want, on their terms. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Richard Ferrer is a British journalist and editor of Britain’s Jewish News. After working for the website totallyjewish.com from 2000 to 2004, he edited the Boston Jewish Advocate, the United States’ oldest Jewish newspaper, before returning to the U.K. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Lt. Col. (res.) Avital Leibovich has been the Director of American Jewish Committee Jerusalem since 2014. Previously, she served for more than 20 years in a wide range of senior media and public relations positions within the Israel Defense Forces. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Rabbi David Wolpe is the Senior Rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, and has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the American Jewish University, Hunter College, and UCLA. Wolpe is also the author of eight books, including the national bestseller, Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Meredith Jacobs is the CEO of Jewish Women International, as well as an award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of Washington Jewish Week. She authored The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat and co-authored, with her daughter Sofie, a bestselling series of interactive journals called Just Between Us. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Rabbi Mitchel Malkus has served as Head of School at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington, D.C. since 2013. Malkus is also co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education located at George Washington University. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Following her father's sudden passing in 2013, Nikki Schreiber decided to do something in his memory, so she created an Instagram account called Humans of Judaism, which shares remarkable stories of Jews from across the world. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Rabbi Elie Kaunfer is President and CEO of the Hadar Institute, whose mission is to empower Jews to create and sustain vibrant, practicing, egalitarian communities of Torah, Avodah, and Hesed. Kaunfer is also a co-founder of the independent minyan Kehilat Hadar and has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the top 50 rabbis in America. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.

Dr. Hal Lewis has been both an extremely successful nonprofit executive, and a highly regarded professor of leadership — over a career that has spanned more than three decades. Most recently, he completed more than a decade as the President and CEO of Chicago’s Spertus College/Spertus Institute. The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman, the founder of JOOL. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.